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Post by Admin on Nov 27, 2020 20:51:46 GMT
FROM her total confidence in the Grinch's goodness to her adorable pining after the festive season, there's no denying little Cindy Lou Who was the real hero of the 2000 cult crimbo movie. But while we all remember her as the cute seven-year-old who sang Where Are You Christmas?, actress Taylor Momsen who played Cindy, has now reinvented herself as a PUNK rocker. American-actress-turned-musician Taylor was just seven when she played Cindy Lou Who in the 2000 hit movie, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Following the success of the film, Taylor went on to star in Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams as well as earning the title role in 2002 Hansel And Gretel. Fans will also recognise the actress from her role as Jenny "Little J" Humphrey in teen drama Gossip Girl. However, Taylor left the hit television series after five years in 2011 to focus on her flourishing music career with punk band The Pretty Reckless. And let's just say, you'd never guess this popular punk star once played sweet and innocent Cindy Lou Who. http://instagram.com/p/BkYEWNqF5a4 With the band's most famous songs including You Make Me Wanna Die and Going to Hell, Taylor has swapped her adorable braided do for peroxide blonde tresses and a trademark statement smokey eye. A far cry from her days as a child actor, Taylor told Interview Magazine in 2010 that becoming a rock star was "always the plan" and she wrote her "first song at age 5".
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Post by Admin on Nov 28, 2020 4:59:00 GMT
For most of his life, Theodor Geisel, the children’s author who used the name Dr. Seuss, wouldn’t license his books for the screen. Geisel had written the 1953 musical film The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T., and he’d hated how it turned out. (He called it a “debaculous fiasco.”) But one guy changed his mind. Chuck Jones, the great Warner Bros. animator, had worked with Geisel on a series of animated shorts for the Army. They starred a character named Private Snafu, a serviceman who did almost everything wrong; he was created by Frank Capra and played by Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny. These cartoons were basically horny Looney Tunes shorts. Years later, Geisel agreed to work with Jones again on a TV-special adaptation of the former’s 1957 kid-lit classic How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Boris Karloff, the ’30s horror-film great, narrated and voiced the Grinch, and Geisel wrote the script, including the words of the song “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” The result, a half-hour animated special, was about as perfect as an adaptation could be. Geisel’s loopy, absurdist poetry and surreal, stylized art weren’t easy to translate. Only Geisel himself, working with one of the greatest animators in history, could be trusted to get it right. How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a weird hybrid: It’s a movie-star movie and an intellectual-property movie. Both the Dr. Seuss book and the 1966 TV special were fully embedded in the national consciousness. You would’ve had a hard time finding anyone who didn’t know who the Grinch was. But you would’ve also had trouble finding anyone who didn’t recognize Jim Carrey, the antic, rubbery energy-bomb who had succeeded Robin Williams as Hollywood’s most lucrative physical comedian. On a certain level, it made sense for Carrey to play a figure from a Chuck Jones cartoon. Carrey had built his career by basically working as a live-action cartoon—literally, in the case of 1994's The Mask, one of his biggest early hits. In the 1994 calendar year, the former Fire Marshall Bill had made Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask and Dumb And Dumber—the kind of dominant hat-trick breakout year that we will probably never see again. From there, Carrey’s big hits—Batman Forever, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Liar Liar—raked in amounts of money that are now mind-boggling to consider. Carrey also craved institutional approval, but his serious-actor moves, like 1998’s The Truman Show and 1999’s Man On The Moon, didn’t win him the Oscars that he so badly wanted. (He didn’t even get nominated.) So you can see why Carrey would’ve gone for a home run as obvious as The Grinch. After all, if nobody’s handing you any statues, you might as well go make some money. Carrey was reportedly a nightmare on the Grinch set. The great makeup artist Rick Baker had designed utterly demented makeovers for everyone in the cast. For some reason, Baker and Howard envisioned the Whos down in Whoville as repulsive rat-faced mutants. Carrey, meanwhile, had to spend hours every day being coated in dyed-green yak fur, and he hated it. Years later, Carrey’s makeup artist, Kazuhiro Tsuji, told Vulture that the star would disappear from the set for hours at a time without explanation, and he’d return with his costume trashed. Tsuji also says that Carrey berated him so badly that it drove the artist to therapy. I’ll tell you one thing, though: Jim Carrey tries. He puts every ounce of his manic, ticcy, enervating energy into bringing the Grinch to life. He minces and growls and frowns and mugs. The movie gives him a long, long leash to riff and dance and ramble, and he uses all of it. Even under all that yak fur, Carrey is instantly recognizable for his mannerisms alone, and he puts on the full Jim Carrey show. I like the bits where the Grinch puts nails in blenders to try to drown out the Whos’ carols, or where he does his best to scare little Cindy Lou Who (young Taylor Momsen, seven years before Gossip Girl and more than a decade before alt-rock radio stardom). Also, the Grinch’s dog is cute. Unfortunately, Carrey is so utterly invested in the Jim Carreyness of it all that he never even attempts to sell the final transformation, the moment where the Grinch comes to understand the meaning of Christmas. When the Grinch’s heart grows three sizes, Carrey plays it as a series of spasmodic contortions, immediately short-circuiting any pathos that the scene could’ve generated. By the end of the movie, we never get any real sense that the Grinch is a changed character.
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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2020 4:23:16 GMT
‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ is a timeless classic and a must-watch every holiday season. Dec. 9 marks the day of ‘The Grinch Musical,’ so we’re taking a look back at the 2000 movie cast then and now. Dr. Seuss’ beloved children’s book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, has been adapted a number of times, but our love for the Grinch was taken to a whole new level when the 2000 live-action film was released in Nov. 2000. Jim Carrey has become synonymous with the Grinch after 20 years, and it’s hard to imagine anyone else in the role. The Grinch Musical is set to air Dec. 9 on NBC. Matthew Morrison is stepping into the Grinch’s shoes for the musical event. All this love for the Grinch, including the constant airings of How the Grinch Stole Christmas around the holidays, has us wanting to catch up with our beloved Grinch and the Whos of Whoville from the 2000 holiday classic 20 years later. Jim Carrey, 58, starred as the one and only Grinch in the 2000 film. Jim completely transformed into the iconic holiday character, spending 2 hours in the makeup chair at the start of the day, and one hour after filming was over. The Grinch remains one of Jim’s most beloved roles. In the years after How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Jim starred in notable films like Bruce Almighty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and more. He recently starred in the hit film Sonic the Hedgehog in 2020 and is expected to reprise the role of Dr. Robotnik in the sequel. Jim returned to television for the Showtime series Kidding, which ran for 2 seasons. Jim was nominated for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2019. Jim dated Jenny McCarthy from 2005 to 2010. He met Cathriona White in 2012. Cathriona died by suicide in 2015. Jim was a pallbearer at her funeral. He dated Ginger Gonzaga for less than a year. Taylor Momsen, 27, was just 7 years old when she starred as Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She went on to appear in other films in the years after playing Cindy Lou, but her big break wouldn’t come until 2007 when she was cast as Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl. Taylor ended up leaving the series after season 4 in 2011. That same year, Taylor announced she was quitting acting to focus on her music career. She did return for the Gossip Girl series finale in 2012. The former actress is currently the frontwoman for the rock band The Pretty Reckless. The band has released 3 studio albums, with their fourth set to be released in 2021.
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Post by Admin on Dec 12, 2020 6:42:57 GMT
Taylor Momsen had a formative musical experience while filming “How the Grinch Stole Christmas." “The thing that I remember the most that probably resonated with me to this day as an adult was the first time that I went into a recording studio and got to work with the amazing James Horner. And I'll never forget walking into this beautiful studio, with this immaculate console in front of me, and putting headphones on and singing into a microphone for the first time, singing ‘Where Are You Christmas.'" Momsen was only 7 years old when she played Cindy Lou Who in the 2000 film. “That was such an impactful moment in my life because it made me go, ‘I wanna make music for the rest of my life. I love being' in a recording studio.’” Momsen still has that music bug, as a member of the Pretty Reckless. The band has a new single out called “Death By Rock And Roll,” and the group has a new album of the same title coming out in the new year. “I'm really excited for people to hear it because I think we really created something special,” she said. She’s grateful that her work on “The Grinch” sparked her first interest in music. She had some other firsts on set - it was her first time wearing a wig, fake teeth and fake eyelashes. “I'm in my bedroom singing ‘Where Are You Christmas’ with the flashlight. I mean, essentially, that was my first music video. So I always get a kick out of that. And I remember thinking that was a really fun scene to film.” “(Carrey) is incomparable. I remember him being so kind, so concerned, but so methodical with what he was doing. Even at that young of an age, I remember watching him and going, 'I'm watching an artist right now at work.'” She says the movie might even be a classic now, 20 years later. “I think that people love ‘The Grinch’ just simply because the core of the story is so sweet and it's so heartwarming and it has such a good message. Aside from how amazing Jim Carrey's performance is and the theatrics that went into the shoot, just the way the film looks and moves and is edited is amazing in its own right.” She feels the message of the movie is something that everyone can relate to in some way and she feels lucky to be a part of it. “The fact that it comes back around every year - I think it's something to look forward to. And I think it just kinda brings happiness and joy to anyone who watches it.”
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Post by Admin on Dec 12, 2020 23:44:01 GMT
Before she was "Little J" as Jenny Humphrey, actress Taylor Momsen was little Cindy Lou Who. The Gossip Girl alum opened up in a rare interview on Friday, Dec. 11, to reflect on the 20th anniversary of her breakout role in the 2000 film How the Grinch Stole Christmas. It's been two decades since the 27-year-old rocker portrayed the tiniest citizen of Whoville, opposite Jim Carrey's iconic green grouch. Taylor was only 7 years old at the time. Speaking with Today, she explained, "The thing that I remember the most that probably resonated with me to this day as an adult was the first time that I went into a recording studio and got to work with the amazing James Horner." The celebrated composer was a conductor for The Grinch and worked on the scores for Titanic, Avatar and Star Trek. Taylor continued, "I'll never forget walking into this beautiful studio, with this immaculate console in front of me, and putting headphones on and singing into a microphone for the first time, singing 'Where Are You Christmas.'" "That was such an impactful moment in my life because it made me go, 'I wanna make music for the rest of my life. I love being in a recording studio,'" the singer-songwriter said. In fact, she considers her candy-coated songs in The Grinch to be her first taste of creating music videos (and, crucially, her first time wearing fake eyelashes). "I'm in my bedroom singing 'Where Are You Christmas' with the flashlight. I mean, essentially, that was my first music video. So I always get a kick out of that. And I remember thinking that was a really fun scene to film," the star said.
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